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		Retric 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking tec... Arms at the time meant man portable weapons as distinct from cannons or trebuchet etc. Just posted about firearms so many times used the wrong word here.

bluGill 39 days ago [–]

Cannons were regularly privately owned at the time

Retric 39 days ago | [–]

For sake of argument I’ll agree, but again by explicitly using arms here they where excluding them from constitutional protection not banning them.

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